This is an analysis of The World Is Too Much With Us; Late And Soon by William Wordsworth.

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacXcaca
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101101111 10110111110 1011010101 111011010101 0111010001 01100101110 11110111010 10110111101 0111111100 0101000110 1111010101 1101111101 1101010001 1111010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

we

Anaphora

have